Georges Rouault

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. ”

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted. ”

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ”

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. ”

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ”

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. ”

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ”